Tag: adobe

That error message is what greeted me when I tried to install Adobe Creative Suite CS3 just now. According to this knowledge base entry, that’s because I’m trying to install the software onto a filesystem that is *gasp* case-sensitive. You know, where foo.txt and FOO.TXT are different files. Which, on a stock Mac OS X system, they aren’t, for reasons I can’t begin to fathom. But because the first thing I did with my new iMac was put it in boat anchor mode in an unfortunate Boot Camp incident, I had to rebuild the partition table, and I was given the choice of case-sensitive or case-insensitive. I couldn’t think of any advantages to case-insensitivity, so I chose the former. Now I know better. The advantage to having a case-sensitive filesystem is that you can install Adobe products on it.

Luckily, I turned Time Machine on half an hour ago, and I have a full and recent backup. So, in theory, it shouldn’t be too onerous to reformat again, reinstall, and then restore from that. We’ll see.